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一期一會 (Ichigo Ichie): One Meeting, Never Repeated
The mug takes its name from 一期一會 (ichigo ichie, a Japanese four-character idiom meaning "one time, one meeting"). The phrase comes from the Japanese tea ceremony (茶道, chadō); it is associated with the tea master Sen no Rikyū (1522–1591) and was set down in writing by the later practitioner Ii Naosuke (1815–1860) in his treatise Chanoyu Ichie Shū. Both rooted it in the Buddhist idea of impermanence (無常, mujō) — that even the same people, in the same room, never share the exact same gathering twice. The concept here is Japanese and the porcelain craft is Chinese; we name the two lineages separately rather than fold them into a single "Eastern" mood. The object is a small, repeated reminder: the cup you reach for this morning is not the same occasion as yesterday's.









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